Are All Your Farm Chemicals Purposeful and Effective?

If by purposeful and effective, you mean as purposeful and
effective as treating a virus with penicillin, using a hammer to
turn on a light, or substituting mother’s milk for Miracle Grow, a
band aid laced with rattlesnake venom—
then, Yes, every last input is needed and successful, every
herbicide, insecticide, fungicide, and fertilizer. Wait. We have
made up their purposes —all of them—
but we are still married, when We say married, it means you are
married to all We have to offer, you will take them all, all the
pesticides. Can’t take one without the others, they’re a package
deal. Can you imagine applying just herbicides? Even now the
fungi are thinking about living in your soil. One kills the future
fungi, another the insects. We’ll send an airplane—take your animals
inside.